“Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC.
Sonia Orwell
Standard Name: Orwell, Sonia
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
---|---|---|
Family and Intimate relationships | Ivy Compton-Burnett | Jourdain had published a translation of Horace
's Odes in 1904 and the important History of English Secular Embroidery in 1910: in the latter year she also published almost sixty articles on a wide variety... |
Family and Intimate relationships | George Orwell | During that same year GO
proposed marriage to Sonia Brownell
, editorial assistant on Horizon, who refused him. She accepted when he proposed again only months before his death, and they were married on... |
Friends, Associates | Ivy Compton-Burnett | After Jourdain's death, ICB
's circle of friends included George Furlong
, Rex Brandreth
, Barbara
and Walter Robinson
, Soame Jenyns
, Elizabeth Taylor
, Sonia Orwell
(widow of the writer George Orwell), Australian-born... |
Textual Production | George Orwell |
Timeline
1962: Publisher John Calder and writer's widow...
Writing climate item
1962
Publisher John Calder
and writer's widow Sonia Orwell
together organised at Edinburgh the first, highly successful Writers' Conference.
Texts
Orwell, George. My Country Right or Left 1940-1943. Editors Orwell, Sonia and Ian Angus, Penguin Books, 1970.